rentier
Americannoun
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rentiers
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of rentier
from rente ; see rent 1
Example Sentences
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Pinar Giritlioglu, the Istanbul head of the Chamber of City Planners, said: "Unfortunately, the rentier system instead of science continues to rule everything."
From Reuters ● Feb. 20, 2023
The high interest rates on bank deposits encouraged a rentier economy that disincentivized investment in industry and agriculture.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
John Steinbeck’s great Dust Bowl novel, “The Grapes of Wrath,” does an excellent job explicating how a financier-promoted rentier society spurred the mass exodus of Oklahomans post–Dust Bowl that resulted in death, loss and exploitation.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2019
What I would like to take up is Adam Smith views on the rentier class, which, for me at least, is a far more intellectually interesting topic than Keynesianism versus… SSVE.
From Forbes ● Aug. 26, 2014
Such was the immigrant's first conjecture; and, as with slow, scant questions and answers they made their bargain, every new glance strengthened it; he was evidently a rentier.
From The Grandissimes by Cable, George Washington
The hosts, Sydney and Violet Schiff, British rentiers and patrons of the arts, pulled off a coup in a salon at the Hotel Majestic: They brought together five of the greatest artists of the era.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2022
And if you can maintain constant revenues at a lower cost basis, that means even more profits for the rentiers.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2018
Entrepreneurs sought social acceptance by passing themselves off as rentiers.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2016
“The super-rich today are not rentiers living off their accumulated wealth, as was frequently true in early part of the last century,” he said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2011
When the number of small rentiers is considered, i.e., men and women of the middle-class living upon a minimum income, we can understand the usefulness of this home.
From East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne by Betham-Edwards, Matilda
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